I  don't ordinarily enjoy blogs that emote rather than inform, but I'm going to break my own rule and vent for a minute about Google.

[Soapbox] Dear Google: Why must all your web searches function like a fire hose? I'll grant you that Google Scholar does an admirable job of keeping out non-academic sources, but you still need to work on ranking your search results by relevance. The algorithm you are currently using returned a rather impenetrable (at least to me) ordering of items. Pardon me for being under the impression that the most relevant items should appear at the top of the list. It seems I was mistaken - proving yet again that a thinking human being cannot be replaced by a "thinking" machine. [/Soapbox]

Actually not a bad argument for why we still need actual reference librarians, and not just computerized catalogs.

(Edit: Not that I think Google is entirely useless. They are doing some pretty neat stuff tracking flu trends, for example. )